When you're drowning, you don't say 'I would be incredibly pleased if someone would have the foresight to notice me drowning and come and help me,' you just scream. – John Lennon UPDATED c. 29th JANUARY 2012

No matter how careful you are, there's going to be the sense you missed something, the collapsed feeling under your skin that you didn't experience it all. Well, get used to that feeling. That's how your whole life will feel some day. This is all practice. — Chuck Palahniuck
REVISED: c. 4th April, 2012.

I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. I will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future. The Spirits of all Three shall strive within me. I will not shut out the lessons that they teach. — Charles Dickens

When things break, it's not the actual breaking that prevents them from getting back together again. It's because a little piece gets lost. The whole shape has changed. — John Green & David Levithan, Will Grayson, Will Grayson

Perhaps only people who are capable of real togetherness have that look of being alone in the universe. The others have a certain stickiness, they stick to the mass. — Lady Chatterley's Lover, D. H. Lawrence